How can I set up Common Lisp to work with sublime text 2. Is there a way to set it up so I can compile and run the code easily, I am new to both lisp and sublime text.
For Sublime Text, I'd recommend SublimeREPL for the REPL. The default configuration for Common Lisp uses SBCL nowadays, I think (Previously it was CLISP). To download a binary of SBCL for Windows, just go to the downloads page.
I've never installed SBCL on Windows, but the installation should be fairly simple.
To install Quicklisp, follow the instructions in the website.
You can't actually compile anything with Sublime Text, because it is just text editor. But there are plugin for sublime text 2/3 that claimed to properly indents lisp code: lispindent.
So, you can write your CL program with it just by creating .lisp text-file. Then you can run it with SBCL as easy as (load "C:/path-to-your-file.lisp").
And yes, to work with something more difficult than "Hello, world!" you will need Quicklisp as a package manager for Common Lisp.
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I installed emacs prelude in cygwin via the simple curl installation. I open a test.js file and try typing "document." to see autocomplete but nothing pops up. Admittedly I'm totally an emacs/prelude newbie, is there something else I should be doing to get it to autocomplete?
Does your Prelude installation include library Autocomplete? And is that what you mean by "autocomplete"?
Give a recipe showing what keys you hit and what you expected to happen vs what actually happened.
Consult the Prelude manual.
Ask the preluddites themselves (sorry; couldn't resist): emacs-prelude#googlegroups.com.
I see only a few Google hits in English for all three keywords: "emacs prelude autocomplete", and none of them mention using Prelude and Autocomplete together.
Your question is too general, I am assuming by auto-completion you mean
A popup that displays the possible completions for currently typed
word and allows you select one of the candidates
Something like this
Last time I checked prelude did not come with such autocomplete but you can configure emacs to have this kind of completions. You will have to install a library that provides the completion UI, I know of three libraries that do this in emacs (ordered according to my familiarity with them)
1) auto-complete
2) company
3) completion-ui
You can install any one of these (auto-complete and company have a good a number of backends, I do not know much about completion-ui). If you are using emacs 24 this will be as simple as M-xlist-packagesRET, marking the package to be installed with I and then typing X (for auto-complete you will need to add melpa to your package archive, refer to the websites above for more on installation)
These will provide a basic completion interface. auto-complete by default offers words in current buffer for auto-completion. However for 'intelligent' auto-completion you will need to configure these to use a completion backend. This will vary according to the individual language you want completion (eg. jedi for python, tern for javascript, eclim for java etc), as such you will need to ask specific questions to get helpful answers.
Does anyone know of a syntax file to get LESS working in emacs?
You are probably looking for a less-css emacs mode, which is an elisp file that can be loaded in your emacs environment. Another version is also available in github.
According to this answer, Emacs + Slime already has much advanced functionality. So how can I get syntax coloring, auto-completion, and perhaps even version control management, set up and running in my copy of Lispbox?
If it's of any help, I have installed Lispbox on Mac OS Lion.
Syntax highlighting should already be working as soon as you load a lisp file in Emacs, regardless of whether you've got SLIME installed or not. If it's not, try doing M-x font-lock-mode and see if that turns it on.
Version control isn't provided by Emacs or SLIME, but Emacs can integrate with pretty much any version control system you care to use. I recommend Mercurial or Git. Emacs should start vc-mode automatically when you open a file that is in one of the supported version control systems. The manual includes extensive documentation, do M-: (info "(emacs)Version Control") to jump right to it.
Auto-completion is more complicated. There is more than one way to skin this cat, but for Lisp SLIME's default method should be good enough. Use M-TAB to complete the symbol at point.
Is there a way to expand the current command at the Clojure repl like I'd be able to do in Common Lisp?
For example say I have typed:
Math/
I would like the tab key to expand to all the available variables and functions in that namespace.
I'm using Clojure as inferior-lisp would like to know how to do this from the plain vanilla repl in Clojure, and through swank slime.
Another vote in favour of clojure-mode and slime under Emacs. In particular, if you set up auto-complete, then you can use my ac-slime package to get context-aware tab completion in a dropdown list. Here's a screencast showing it in action.
And, further to technomancy's comment about hippie-expand, here's how to tie slime completion into hippie-expand.
Update: as of 2012, nrepl, nrepl.el and ac-nrepl are replacing slime and ac-slime; same functionality, smaller and cleaner codebase.
Update2: as of Oct 2013 nrepl.el is renamed to cider and it and ac-nrepl have moved to the clojure-emacs organisation on github. nrepl remains as the server component
Have you tried Clojure mode for Emacs? It has autocomplete (suggestions are shown in new window, and if there's only one possible option, it is used to expand name), highlighting and many other nice features (not more then for CL, but not less too).
It is available via ELPA. After installing ELPA type M-x package-list-packages, set cursor near needed package and press i (already installed packages are in red). You'll need packages clojure-mode, slime, slime-repl and swank-clojure. When you're done with i-marks, press x to complete installation. Finally, press M-x slime - Emacs will tell, that Clojure is not installed and propose to download and use latest version. Just agree.
You can also integrate Emacs with Leiningen.
The vanilla repl in Clojure is pretty crippled; it doesn't even have history. Avoid it for anything but the most primitive of tasks. I don't think you can get this in inferior-lisp, but in the slime repl you can just use TAB to complete things like this. In clojure-mode buffers with slime activated it's M-TAB, or you can tie it into your hippie-expand functions.
I would like to use Emacs to edit some VB6 files but Emacs does not appear to have any of built-in niceties of other languages such as syntax highlighting, etc.
Any plugins/extensions? What else can I do to make Emacs an acceptable and comfortable IDE for VB?
Visual Basic mode
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/visual-basic-mode.el
edit: after installing this script (see script for instructions) syntax highlighting can be toggled via the options menu -- emacs calls it 'font-lock' :)
See these links:
xahlee.info
Emacs wiki
For VB.NET, there is also a VBNET mode.